Bug 7393

Summary: Date::ICal deprecated, suggested replacement by DateTime::Format::ICal
Product: Koha Reporter: MJ Ray (software.coop) <mjr>
Component: Architecture, internals, and plumbingAssignee: MJ Ray (software.coop) <mjr>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Ian Walls <koha.sekjal>
Severity: normal    
Priority: P5 - low    
Version: Main   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Description MJ Ray (software.coop) 2012-01-01 19:18:18 UTC
See http://bugs.debian.org/653301 - Koha should switch too. This will become more important as the removal spreads to more distributions.

On Mon, 26 Dec 2011 17:07:26 +0100, gregor herrmann wrote:
> I suggest to remove libdate-ical-perl from the archive.
> 
> Upstream writes (in Changes) that people should be using DateTime
> modules nowadays, and he's just fixing occasional bugs.
> 
> It has no build or runtime reverse dependencies (apart from a
> spurious Suggests in libtest-class-perl in oldstable).
> 
> libdatetime-format-ical-perl exists as a nice replacement (I've
> switched a script yesterday from Date::ICal to DateTime::Format::ICal
> yesterday after stumbling over a design flaw in the former).
Comment 1 MJ Ray (software.coop) 2012-02-13 16:43:15 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 7532 ***